Then you should try to relax and not get hung up on people saying their OCD for inane shit. At least they have an understanding what the disease is and aren't totally botching it by using it incorrectly.

but the thing is that they are. the difference between what they use it for and what it actually is is pretty huge. for example, they'll use it for them "needing" to wash their hands a lot after touching stuff, but someone with OCD will keep washing their hands until they bleed. i only care about it just enough to educate someone that doesn't know better. :P

the difference between what they use it for and what it actually is is pretty huge.

Not really. OCD affects people in a variety of ways, some forms are way more severe than others. Someone with a form of OCD could very well get fixated on the fact that they need to wash their hands, but that urge will go away once they wash their hands.

Or you could realize that a lot of people who use the term know exactly what it means and don't give a shit and use it anyway. I call shit retarded a lot, does it mean it's literally retarded? No. Not everything that comes out of everyone's mouth is meant to be taken 100% literally. Some people use words to draw parallels between things, or to exaggerate things to make a point or for no real reason at all. People need to calm the fuck down with all this politically correct bull shit.

A lot of people who get offended by things other people say only get offended by interpreting it differently than the speaker intended. That doesn't make sense to me. If the person didn't mean to offend you how can you be offended by it? that's silly.